Music-based teaching and prepared dictation

I love getting email, just as much if not more than getting snail mail. I get way more email than snail mail though :) Today in my inbox I had an email from Kathy Shrock (great resources!) about music teaching...not teaching music. The site that she linked has a ton of quirky songs that teach about different subjects and topics. For example, my kids listened to Atomic Brother, Corn to Ethanol Using Enzymes, Afraid of the Dark, and we started with 200 Meters Down. Great stuff! There are some videos for some of the songs (I think my kids liked that the most) but also there are just audio clips, as well as pdf of the lyrics. I am definitely bookmarking this site! It is called Science (and more) to Music. As far as I can see, the site has mostly songs for upper grades (higher elementary and up). Hope you find something you can use!

Prepared dictation is the other bit for my post. I had no idea what it was. I am new to all this CM style education, but I am trying to learn! What caught my eye this time was because the email had the subject line of Homeschool Spelling the Charlotte Mason Way. Both of my dc are not that great at spelling but honestly, I detest lists of 10-20 spelling words to test on. They and I find it to be extremely boring. But if there are words that come from a book that is interesting, the topic is something that they enjoy (oh, I know, school can't always be fun...that's why there's math! jk) it will be easier to do. I also get emails from Simply Charlotte Mason. Another great resource! The one I want to share today is Sonya Shafer explains Prepared Dictation video on Youtube.com If you look to the right of the video, there are a lot of other helpful videos as well.

Okay, I am off of here to get my final paper done for my last class (yay!!). Have a great day!